There’s rich and there’s owning a chimpanzee rich. I dream of being the latter.
I’ve really been struggling to keep focused on anything for more than a few minutes recently, but Sunset Boulevard was a fun watch. I love the aesthetic of early Hollywood with its mixture of Mission and Art Deco stylings. Plus movies about making a movies are always really fun in their own aspects. I definitely need to come back to this one when I can more fully appreciate it.
Now I understand why they call him Killer Kane.
I went into The Ninth Configuration thinking it would be a more straight forward religious horror film like Blatty’s previous work with The Exorcist, but what I experienced is terrifying in ways that I hadn’t considered. This is the only film that I have ever seen that made me feel like I was also totally insane. My brain hurts. Like what even is a genre? It’s devoutly religious, while being deeply…
The is by far the grossest (non-derogatory) film that I have seen an a fat minute. Such a fun watch! I had expectations going in, but The Substance definitely blew those out of the water. Body horror is such a fun sub-genre that I can never truly grow tired of. I love how uncomfortably up close and personal the camera gets during dialogue. The transitions between scenes are so unnecessarily creative and ingenious. I definitely have more thoughts but not the right words right now, so I’ll probably have to come back later and edit this review, but damn. What a picture!
